Incidence and 1-Year Survival of Elderly South Africans Starting Kidney Replacement Therapy

Kidney Int Rep. 2022 Jun 10;7(9):2071-2075. doi: 10.1016/j.ekir.2022.05.030. eCollection 2022 Sep.

Santosh Thapa¹, Thabiet Jardine^{1

2}, Thaabit Davids², Fergus J Caskey³, Mogamat Razeen Davids^{1

2}

¹ Division of Nephrology, Department of Medicine, Stellenbosch University and Tygerberg Hospital, Cape Town, South Africa.
² South African Renal Registry, Cape Town, South Africa.
³ Population Health Science Institute, University of Bristol, Bristol, United Kingdom.

No abstract available

Keywords: South Africa; elderly; kidney failure; kidney replacement therapy; mortality; survival analysis.